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10 K2 climbers confirmed dead
ISLAMABAD, Aug 3: Ten of the 17 climbers on K2 missions are dead, a tour operator confirmed on Sunday....
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US, Pakistan need to combine powers to beat militants: Rice
WASHINGTON, Aug 3: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said that only a combination US and Pakistani powers can improve the situation in Fata, where the militants appear to have gained an upper hand....
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Plans for additional 16,000MW by 2015
ISLAMABAD, Aug 3: Pakistan plans to acquire an additional power generation capacity of 16,000MW by 2015 and needs $30 billion investment to meet the target....
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Altaf asks people to prepare to resist Taliban
KARACHI, Aug 3: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain urged the people of Karachi on Sunday to adopt suitable measures to protect themselves and called upon the president and the prime minister to take effective steps to prevent Talibanisation of Karachi....
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Al Qaeda confirms four commanders died in Fata US attack
CAIRO, Aug 3: Al Qaeda confirmed in a web statement on Sunday the death of a senior commander known as an explosives expert, who is believed to have been killed in a US air strike in Pakistan last week....
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Govt in for a pounding in Senate
ISLAMABAD, Aug 3: After a ruined honeymoon, the government is in for what could be the hardest post-election parliamentary pounding when the Senate meets on Monday for an opposition-called session....
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FIA team to probe human smugglers’ network in Turkey
RAWALPINDI, Aug 3: The government has decided to send a team of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to Turkey for a probe into human smugglers’ network after 30 illegal immigrants, mostly Pakistanis, were found dead in the outskirts of Istanbul on Wednesday....
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Rain havoc in Sindh; two killed, 50 injured
HYDERABAD, Aug 3: A man and a woman were killed and about 50 people, seven among them children, were injured when houses collapsed and three canals developed breaches as heavy rains...
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Shahbaz can sacrifice office 1,000 times: Judges issue
LAHORE, Aug 3: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Sunday his party was committed to the reinstatement of judges sacked under Nov 3 emergency and he was ready to “sacrifice”...
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Fresh probe into Sonia Naz case ordered
LAHORE, Aug 3: On the instructions of Chief Minister (CM) Shahbaz Sharif, a fresh probe into the Sonia Naz maltreatment case, which happened in Faisalabad a couple of years ago, has...
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Six officials arrested for aiding flour smugglers
ATTOCK, Aug 3: The police have arrested six officials, including five policemen, deployed at a checkpoint for their involvement in wheat flour smuggling, sources said on Sunday....
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The show goes on: Presidency wins turf war
ISLAMABAD, Aug 3: The Prime Minister House (PMH) has lost its bid to host this year’s ‘Salam Pakistan’ cultural show that the state-run Pakistan Television (PTV) has been staging...
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Cyber unit of police begins operations
ISLAMABAD, Aug 3: Cyber Unit, at the cost of Rs500, 000, of the city police has started working at Rescue-15....
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Extra water discharged from Rawal, Khanpur dams
ISLAMABAD, Aug 3: Authorities operating the Rawal Dam and the Khanpur Dam had to open the spillways of the reservoirs at the weekend after the water level reached the maximum mark, officials said....
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Govt advised against Afghan route for power import
ISLAMABAD, Aug 3: Elected representatives of Chitral have called upon the government not to yield to international pressure and go for the shortest and most viable Wakhan-Chitral route for the proposed import of electricity from Central Asia....
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Teenager among two murdered
ISLAMABAD, Aug 3: Two persons were murdered in separate incidents in the capital city on Sunday, police said....
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‘UN resolutions effective tools to advance Kashmir issue’
MUZAFFARABAD, Aug 3: A Norway-based civil society activist of Kashmiri origin has cogently supported the UN Security Council resolutions on Kashmir, asking the pro-freedom people not to take them for granted....
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Four drown in Indus
HYDERABAD, Aug 3: Four young picnickers, residents of Latifabad, drowned in the Indus due to strong current after heavy rains in the area on Sunday....
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FIR lodged against Rangers in murder case
SUKKUR, Aug 3: Nine Rangers personnel belonging to 61 Qasim Rangers were booked by the Ghotki police on Sunday, following the murder of a young man in Qadria Muhalla late on Friday....
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Cotton ginners shut factories in protest
HYDERABAD, Aug 3: Office-bearers of Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association have called upon the government to remove all hurdles in the way of issuance of working licence by provincial agriculture departments...
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Petition filed to stop sale of law college building
SUKKUR, Aug 3: Doctor Naseema Aftab Shah has filed a petition in the Sukkur bench of the Sindh High Court against the proposed sale of Agha Badar-i-Alam Durrani Law College Sukkur to the ‘builder mafia’....
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Ministers reject opposition to coal authority
MITHI, Aug 3: Members of the Thar Coal Energy Board on Sunday rejected allegations that Sindh government was handing over control of Thar coal to the federal government as baseless propaganda...
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Vested interests conspiring against Thar coal: APC
MITHI, Aug 3: Speakers at an All-Parties Conference on “Save Thar Coal” on Sunday accused ‘vested interests’ in the federal bureaucracy of conspiring to gain control of Thar coal reserves and...
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Gastroenteritis: two die
GUJRANWALA, Aug 3: Gastroenteritis has claimed another two lives in the district....
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Short of money, not talent!
GUJRANWALA, Aug 3: Distinction in education is not merely a rich man’s prerogative as a poor lad of Nokhar Mandi village has proved.Hafiz Amanullah, who has emerged as the top scorer...
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Murder case against seven jail officials: ‘Torture causes prisoner’s death’
MIANWALI, July 3: The City police registered a murder case against seven Central Jail officials, including deputy superintendent (jail) for allegedly torturing to death an under-trial prisoner here on Sunday....
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Four of family killed for pursuing case
KHANEWAL, Aug 3: Four of a family were gunned down reportedly for pursuing a murder case here on Sunday in 19/10-R, Katchakhu....
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ACE books nazim, three others
GUJRAT, Aug 3: The Anti-corruption Establishment (ACE) has registered a case on the directives of the Lahore High Court (LHC) against the Gujrat tehsil nazim, Karianwala union council naib nazim and...
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Goldsmith’s body found
SIALKOT, Aug 3: The body of a Ban Bajwa goldsmith kidnapped from Chawinda near Pasrur around a week ago was found in fields near Khambraanwala village near Kohi Loharan on Sunday....
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Child drowns in Deg
SIALKOT, Aug 3: An eight-year-old boy Zainul Abidin, of Faisalabad, drowned in Deg Naullah near Sodiyaan village in Pasrur tehsil while picnicking there with his family on Sunday evening....
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Two fall victim to bus firing
GUJRAT, Aug 3: Two employees of a cell phone company were killed and seven others were injured when nine persons shot at a passenger bus when its driver did not give...
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SSC achiever seeks reward
MUZAFFARGARH, Aug 3: A Secondary School Certificate position-holdes is crying foul as he says he has been ignored by Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif while doling out money as reward....
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Addict found shot dead
LAHORE, Aug 3: A 28-year-old drug addict was shot dead allegedly by unidentified people at a village of Manga Mandi on Sunday....
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Entrance test: body to submit report by 10th
LAHORE, Aug 3: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has made a 13-member committee to ‘holistically assess the pros and cons of the entrance test for admission to medical and dental institutions’ and...
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Rescued sisters show signs of ‘mental disorder’
LAHORE, Aug 3: The two girls, who have been rescued from ‘illegal detention’ of their brother in Saidpur (Sabzazaar), are said to have been suffering from mental disorders....
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Doctors to undergo ‘performance audit’
LAHORE, Aug 3: The Punjab government has decided to conduct a third party audit of all autonomous medical and health institutions ‘in terms of finance and performance’....
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PML-Q plans reference against CM
LAHORE, Aug 3: Opposition leader in the National Assembly Pervaiz Elahi says Mian Shahbaz Sharif is disqualified from the office as the PML-Q parliamentary party will decide in next session of the provincial assembly to file a reference against him....
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